Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Hublin explains that Neanderthal, Denisova and Homo Sapiens, the three great terminal forms of humanity between which the evolutionary match was to be played, were all big-brained. Back 300,000 ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens mixed genetically ... their fossils have been found as far east as the Chagyrskaya and Denisova Caves in Altai (Siberia) and in the Bawa Yawan shelter in the Zagros ...

Pääbo also discovered that there had been a gene transfer from the Denisova hominins to Homo sapiens, which points to the two subspecies procreating at some point while they coexisted.